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blowfly
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noun
- any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae Also calledbluebottle
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Instead, insects -- particularly carrion beetles and blowflies -- act as microbe carriers.
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"It could have been DNA from a blowfly," Holmes says.
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Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses.
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The process of decay is driven by scavengers, in nature beginning with vultures and blowflies and ending with fungi and bacteria.
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Another discovery was that non-scavenger birds such as the meadow pipit, northern wheatear, common reed bunting, bluethroat and lapland bunting all fed on the “bloom†of arthropods, such as blowfly, that developed on the carrion.
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